Walt Disney's Sin City

I like a clever fake trailer and post these mashups from time to time.  This one is particularly well done.
Walt Disney's Sin City:



hat tip to Neatorama

You're the Last Airbender Charlie Brown

I'm a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender.  I was recently reading a Charlie Brown collection while my wife was watching the show, and the connection of two bald kids with the weight of the world on their shoulders clicked in my head.  I drew this little mashup immediately.  Apolgies to Charles Schulz

I thought of doing Linus as Sokka, and my daughter suggested Snoopy as Appa, which would mean Woodstock as Momo I suppose, but I never got that far. I'd watch this show, if someone ever made it.

Update: Apparently I'm not the first person to have this notion. Dragonstar10 at Deviant Art beat me to the punch by 4 whole years.

A-Team Trailer and an Alternate

Well, the A-Team Trailer has been available here and there today:

If that one gets taken down, which seems likely, check out this fake trailer from 2007.  I kind of like the idea of them keeping the team as Vietnam veterans, acting as aging Soldiers of Fortune.  Morgan Freeman as B.A. seems oddly inspired:

The A-Team trailer | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

Night Flight - TV Made for Me.

Growing up in rural Kansas I didn't have cable televison until I was 13 years old, and even then I only had something like 28 channels.

There was no MTV, but there was the USA network, today home of Monk, WWE, and the 4400. In those days USA had the USA Cartoon Express which showed reruns of old Hanna-Barbera cartoons(this was way before Cartoon Network). Here is an out bumper and an in bumper from that old show.

The USA Network program that I remember most fondly, however, was Night Flight.

I found the show when I was in Jr. High and it was a revelation. It opened my eyes to what else was out there in terms of music and movies and just wild ideas.
Night Flight aired on USA on Friday and Saturday nights from 1981-88 and from 1990 to around 1996 in various forms in syndication.

Without MTV this was my source (Along with NBC's Friday Night Videos) for music videos like Sabbath, Dio and Billy Idol.

Night Flight also featured weird and experimental videos on all kinds of subjects like cult films and Japanese Pop Culture like Dynaman. Dynaman had English commentary over-dubbed for comic effect.

Night Flight was also the only place a guy like me could see experimental films like this Ron and Nancy cut-up extolling the virtues of drug use. Artist profiles like this one on Tom Waits, introduced me to musicians I'd never heard of before. It was also a great source for weird animation like this Schoolhouse Rock style video for Ray Steven's Mr. Businessman.

HERE is an experimental video called 'Buzz Box' that uses claymation and audio mashup techniques.

One Feature of Night Flight that I fondly recall was called Never Coming Attractions, trailers for movies you were never likely to see(at least not at the time).

Night Flight is probably also where I was first exposed to the Church of the Subgenius:



There are a still of fans of the show today.
This Night Flight Fan Site lists and describes the recurring segments on the show such as Atomic TV, Cult Classics, and Heavy Metal Heroes. The site also has a profile of Pat Prescott, the wonderful, distinctive and unforgettable voice that narrated Night Flight. I had a crush on that voice, and I'd never seen a picture of her until I started digging for info for this post.

I have really fond memories of this show, and blame it for many of my weird interests to this day. It is so easy today to find any music video, any cult film, anything you can imagine on the internet, but this show was unique in that it was really the only outlet for a kid from Kansas for that type of weirdness. It was unbelievably cool, and I missed it when it was finally gone. I only saw a few of the syndicated episodes, after it left the USA network, in the very early 90s.

Do a Night Flight Search on YouTube, go back to 1988 and enjoy.

Super Friends

I came across this video today. A Friends/Superfriends mashup. I love Robin as Rachel:

The Breakfast Club loves Finntroll Friday.

This cool mashup has the Breakfast Club dancing to Finntroll's Ursvamp from their album Nattfodd.

Brilliant Mashup: Goonies of the Caribbean

This is utterly brilliant. Simply the best movie mashup trailer I've seen yet.
Goonies of the Caribbean:



HERE is the creator's site.

The well known Shining, a romantic comedy can be found HERE. This is the one that started it all.

In the same vein as Shining, Travis Bickel finds love at the corner of Hope and Destiny in Taxi Driver.

Top Gun was WAY better than Brokeback Mountain.

Horror seems to be a recurring theme in these mashups. I think these are easier for editors because reaction takes occur so frequently in movies. Plus it is amazing the mood that can be set by a few sound effects and the right music:

Mary Poppins invades your nightmares HERE.

When Harry Stalked Sally HERE.

The Lion King as horror epic HERE.

Milton really likes his red Swingline in Office Space.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson learn their lessons as Wedding Crashers.

Jack Black as kidnapper can be found HERE.

There are literally dozens more, with some better than others. I included some of the best ones I've seen. I found recut trailers for Toy Story, Silence of the Lambs, the Matrix, Star Wars, Sleepless in Seattle, Back to the Future, ET, The Sound of Music and several others.